Adding the asterisk at the end of the command will prevent your password from being echoed on the screen…..Oooohh, ahhhhh…..Isn’t that cool?

Force a user to choose between OS’s:

In the boot.ini file change the timeout to “-1” without the quotes. The default timeout is 30.

ASU is complaining that departments are using global groups too much and should be using Universal Groups instead. Apparently using the former causes more network traffic. Shouldn’t IT, err UTO be more concerned about the compromised PC’s on campus doing warez file shares and hack attempts? Oh wait I almost forgot what they told me, “We build our applications and systems with security from the beginning, it’s not an afterthought.” Silly me.
Well anyway, that’s what I learned from my 16 hours of training.